Being courageous isn't about the risks you take (or don't take for that matter). Being courageous is about putting yourself in situations that are beyond your comfort zone.
personal values
Startups & Faster Learning
Regardless of whether you are bootstrapped or have a nice, comfortable war chest from fundraising, every day that you have unvalidated assumptions and you're not learning, is a day that costs you money.
Entrepreneurs Anonymous
Your business is only dead and you have only failed when you give up. You are the entrepreneur and with that, you are the life force that keeps your business going.
Comfort Zones
The very fact that I'm an entrepreneur means that I'll probably continuously step out of that comfort zone, take on new risk to enable me to pursue the next reward with something new.
Screw Money, Do Passion
There's one thing that you should know about me: money (and more of it) has always been a really bad motivator for me. I just can't get up in the morning and do anything if the pursuit is purely for money.